Posts tagged "sports"

Waterbombing. Heretofore it's been a male-dominated sport -- for the last eight years men have taken the top spot in this highly competitive field. But no more. On Wednesday night, in Sheffield, England, 20-year-old Charlotte Rowney took top honors with a perfect score. Which means nothing to you, if you're not familiar with waterbombing, of…

On April 22, Anna-Megan Raley, under the pseudonym of Claire Crawford, wrote a blog post for CBS Houston titled, “Is This Girl ‘Too Chunky’ To Be An OKC Thunder Cheerleader?” In the post, she spotlighted Kelsey Williams, a three-year veteran of the Thunder Girls, the dance team that performs during the home game…

[UPDATE, May 2: BareMinerals has apologized for the signs, saying they did not "translate" well, and adding "Please rest assured that these signs will not be used going forward on the Go Bare tour." — CollectiveAction DC] Now here's a corporate stunt that failed to land: the makeup brand BareMinerals had…

The first MMA fight that I saw was by accident. I was visiting a friend at her apartment and her boyfriend and his friends were watching the last battle in a trio of fights between Quinton Jackson and Wanderlei Silva, two notable MMA fighters. I’d always had a healthy respect for the craft of boxing…

"I am a heterosexual guy in a tough macho sport, which is exactly the reason I feel a duty to say I support gay marriage and gay rights. I have nothing to gain personally from supporting this issue, and that's the point. Society as a whole is better when there is equality, and I want…

After six years of competitive MMA (mixed martial arts) fighting as a woman, Fallon Fox has come out of the closet — against her wishes — as trans. In an interview with OutSports on Tuesday, Fox explained how she was born into a male body, but never felt right. Ten years ago, she…

Is there anything more awesomely inspiring and redemptive than a good sports story? No. Despite the fact that I cannot properly toss a baseball or dribble a basketball, I love a good team sports story (see also: "Friday Night Lights," "Moneyball," and "Rudy"). Coronado High School Thunderbirds team manager Mitchell Marcus has a developmental disability,…

This video had me tearing up: here's NBA star Kenneth Faried of the Denver Nuggets and his two moms, Waudda and Carol. They talk about how they've been a couple for 11 years, have supported each other through health scares, and how special it was for them to marry. Faried and his two moms filmed…

As a girl who defined herself as a ballerina from ages three to 21, I've had the argument over whether dancing is a sport or art many times over. I don't care what any guy friend says: it's both. Hey, you try and make dancing on your toes look effortless! An article i…

Sports website Deadspin has uncovered a doozy of a scoop in the world of college football: This year's inspirational tale of woe about Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o looks to be an elaborate hoax. All season, fans heard how Te'o drew inspiration from girlfriend Lennay Kekua, who died of leukemia. Except Lennay Kekua never existed,…

"Imagine if fondue wanted to end its association with melted cheese." This is how ESPN reported on plans by the Lingerie Football League to rebrand themselves into a classier institution. Good luck with that! They're trying to be taken seriously as an actual football team for women ... as opposed to, say, a sexist travesty…

Last week, ESPN sportscaster Jemele Hill, who is black, shared on Twitter a horrifically racist and sexist letter that she received from a viewer. It's pretty fucking awful. [Clutch Magazine, Huffington Post] I don't even want to know about a "bulimia machine." [Jezebel] Alabama State Rep. Patricia Todd, who…

ESPN Radio "temporarily" suspended hosts who made transphobic comments about a trans basketball player, including referring to her as "it" and saying that no one who is trans should be allowed to play sports. [Queerty] Susan Rice is officially withdrawing from consideration for Secretary of State. [Twitter.com/NBCnews] On Victoria'…

The Danish tennis player Caroline Wozniacki has been accused of racism after she stuffed her bra and skirt, to give the appearance of ample breasts and butt, on the court yesterday, apparently mimicking her fellow women's tennis player Serena Williams. Wozniacki was playing a game in Sao Paolo, Brazil, against Anna Kournikova when, with a…

On December 1st, the sports world was in shock as reports came in that Jovan Belcher, a linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs, died in a murder-suicide, killing himself at the Chiefs training facility after murdering the mother of his three-month-old child in their home. Most people tried to figure out what would…

Today In Totally Awful News: Josh Smith, a junior on the UCLA basketball team, left the team in response to accusations that he simply wasn't in good enough shape to play -- and to a chorus of professional sports commentators and fans claiming he was "too fat." "I have made the decision to leave the…

Brandon Marshall , a wide receiver for the Chicago Bears, was so psyched about a UCF shirt he received that he went on to tweet a photo of him wearing it to his over 750,000 followers. But unfortunately, and understandably considering his job, he went wide — and the photo included a teammate’s naked butt…

Whoever does advertising for the New York Knicks must have thought this ad about bagging "sixes" and "sevens" was a 10, when it's really a zero. People are people, not numbers ranking them on their attractiveness. I was going to call this ad "sexist," but really, it's more all-around douchey for either gender. […

As far as strange competitions go, there might be nothing stranger than the wife-carrying championships. Couples -- who don't actually have to be married -- complete an obstacle course while the woman is wrapped around the guy. Most couples use something called the Estonian grab -- which is when the woman is wrapped ass-to-head around…

Simply Irresistible

Taking a page out of those girls you went to high school with who can't stop smugly posting every detail of their perfect lives on Facebook, Lady Gaga shaded America's youngest grandma Taylor Swift just perfectly on Twitter yesterday. It all started when Jaime King's unborn child's godmother tweeted about Gaga, using the preferred…

Oh look, it's hottest DILF alive, Ryan Gosling, making a rare appearance in public grabbing lunch in LA today. And what's that I see? In addition to his perfectly worn T-shirt (that collar is stretched just so), hoodie and leather jacket, the Gos is rocking a few faint letters on his knuckles, spelling out the…